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40 Year Boy Scout Celebration. Poplar Recreation Ground, 1948

500 boys and girls, whose fathers were killed in World War 1, were taken to Epping Forest for the day in brakes, Newby Place, 1919

A choir in the Bethnal Green Music Festival, undated

Annual Children's Party, given by the Bethnal Green Trades Council, York Hall, Saturday 27 January 1951

Annual Darts Match organised by the Bethnal Green Trades Council, undated

Bethnal Green 1st Festival of Arts Prize Winners Concert, York Hall, February 1951

Bethnal Green Festival of Arts, 1957

Better Britain Brigade 1938 - 39

Girl Guides preparing food at the Brownies Annual Party, York Hall, 1951

Children at Art Exhibition, Poplar Library, 1953

Children going on a Holiday Fund Outing, East India Dock, c1920

Children playing with toy soldiers, Sheba Street, 1978

Children's Christmas Party provided by the tenants of Greenways Estate, Saturday 10 January 1953

Children's London Marathon, 1987

Children's Outing to Clacton 1948

Children's Party held at Co-partnership Institute, East India Dock Road by the Commercial Gas Company, 12 January 1935

Church Lads Brigade, St Mary's Whitechapel, c1915

Civil Defence Week 11 - 16 January 1954, salutes the Mayor at the termination of the march, 16 January 1954

Councillor John Bond, Mayor of Poplar at Poplar's Festival of Britain Night, Battersea Park, 1951

East Enders Hop Picking in Kent, 1932

Fete at Christ Church Rectory, 1972

Garden Fete in aid of charities and the local battalion of the Volunteer Training Corps, Poplar Recreation Ground, 1917

Globetown Xtravagansa, 1989

Hop pickers arriving at London Bridge Station, 1920

Hop picking in Kent, 1935

Judo enthusiasts, Stewart Headlam Institute, Culloden Street, July 1963

Library float at the Carnival, 1958

Local Defence Volunteer Unit formed in June 1940, later the Home Guard

London Marathon, 1987

Webbe Club Football Team, 1937

Children's Party arranged by the wives of Air Force personnel at the American Embassy, Trinity Church Hall, 17 December 1958

Millwall Football Team, 1894 - 5 

May Dy march along Mile End Road, 1938 

Mayor and Hayley Clare Thomas, aged 4, at the first Exhibition of the Poplar Society of Art, October 1957 

Mayor Clark at the Ladies Darts Final, 1951 

Mayoress of Bethnal Green, Bethnal Green National Savings Darts Competition Final, 1952 

Members of the East London Cycling Club, 1937

Music Festival in Bethnal Green Town Hall, 1950

Netball in Bethnal Green Gardens, 1961

Novelty Quiz, Bethnal Green Library, 1955

Old People's Welfare Clubs , 1950

Opening of the Troop Den in the crypt of St Philips's Church, 1925

Poplar Bowling Green, 1926

Poplar Bowling Green group photo, c1926

Poplar Scooter Club, 1936

Poplar Swimming Club, 1908

Poplar, Blackwall and District Rowing Club Regatta, Sunday 6 October 1963

Sewardstone Road Farm, 1943

Sing-song, 1956

Some interested spectators at the first show of the Bethnal Green Aquatic Society, Bethnal Green Men's Institute, 1950

University House Community Centre, 1950

Saturday, February 4, 2012


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